Eric Paul Shaffer

Eric Paul Shaffer is an American novelist and poet, who lives and works in Hawai‘i. Currently a professor of English at Honolulu Community College, he formerly taught at Maui Community College and the University of the Ryukyus on Okinawa. His work has appeared in more than 550 national and international reviews, journals, and magazines, including Bamboo Ridge, the Chaminade Literary Review, the Chicago Review, the Chiron Review, Slate, The Sun Magazine, and the North American Review, as well as in the anthologies 100 Poets Against the War, The EcoPoetry Anthology, Jack London Is Dead: Contemporary Euro-American Poetry of Hawai‘i , Crossing Lines, In the Trenches, Weatherings, and The Soul Unearthed. He is the author of seven collections of poetry and one novel.